Birches

Two bare birch trunks rise close together in the foreground, their white bark and thin branches standing out against a dense screen of hazy, leafless trees behind. A small dark wooden shed with a peaked roof sits low among the trunks, and the ground is covered in dry rust-orange grasses and fallen foliage.

A muted range of lilac, grey, and warm ochre-brown builds the atmosphere, with thick white and pale-pink impasto marking the birch bark and background haze. Branches are drawn with quick, dark linear strokes over softly blended color beneath, creating a hushed, misty stillness typical of a late-autumn woodland edge.